Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde has been selected by the European Pirate Party as candidate for the European Commission presidency, according to TorrentFreak. In two months time citizens of all European Union member states will vote on who can represent them in the European Parliament and Finland's Pirate Party has put forth one of the most recognized candidates as a choice for voters.

Despite a pending prison term for his involvement with The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde is determined to join the European Parliament in Brussels this year. The former Pirate Bay founder and spokesperson announced his plans last year. Sunde is one of the 19 candidates who will be on the ballot of the Finnish branch of the Pirate Party.

The European Pirate Party also elected the Pirate Bay founder as their pick for the European Commission presidency, together with Amelia Andersdotter.

"If elected, I’ll go and bug fix the EU," he told TorrentFreak. "We need to reboot the thing called democracy and make it work."

Sunde added that he is ready for the Finnish election campaign and plans on sharing his strong opinions on the topic of file-sharing and freedom of information.

"Non-commercial file sharing should of course become legal and protected, and we must re-think copyright all together," he explained to TorrentFreak. "Copyright is not the thing that makes ARTISTS money, it’s only for their brokers and distributors," Sunde told us previously.

Sunde also said that he has reached out to Finnish-born Kim Dotcom to join the race. The Megaupload founder apparently declined, instead focusing on politics New Zealand, where he founded the Internet Party.